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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
JENNIE CRAMER'S SPOOK.
1t Is Said to Rise From Its Grave
Every Night.

A big sensation has been caused in
New Haven over the alleged appearance
of the spirit of Jennie Cramer, the beau
years ago near that city. The inquiry
into the cause of her death was one of
the greatest criminal investigations
ever held in the country. Within the
last week story reached the police here
to the effect that two young students
connected with the Yale medical school
had seen Jennie Cramer's ghost. No
faith was placed in it by the police, but
the making public of it caused SenSa-
ton and subsequent investigation. 1t
now turns out that there was truth in
the story. The remains Of beautiful
Jennie Cramer, or what was left of
them, were laid away in the Cramer
burial plot at Evergreen cemetery
one cold afternoon in January, 1881.
Vital portions of the internal organs of
the murdered girl have been carried for
scientists and those eminent in the pro-
fession of medicine to analyZe and eX-
pertinent on. A plain but handsome
monument marks the resting place of
the girl about whom so much was
written during the Malley trial. One
of the grave and another at the foot.
THE grave is covered with ivy. The
Superintendent of the cemetery, an
aged and truthful man, now vOuches for
the story of the students, and he also
states that he has known that the spirit
of Jennie Cramer had come from its
grave nightly for the past five years.
He tells wonderful story of the poor
girls visitation to earth. l, says the
New Haven correspondent of the st.
Louis Globe-DemOcrat, called on the
aged grave-digger to-day and learned
the story of the alleged spirits visits.
Il would consider it a sacrilege to
speak anything but the truth in the
matter" said he. 81 have superintend-
ed here for quarter of century, and
have lived here many years. My only
company is the dead, and pay nightly
visits to their homes. l was greatly in
terested in the great trial, and when
the remains of the poor girl were buried
here l paid frequent visits to the grave,
and tenderly cared for it. 1t was at the
change of the moon that paid one Of
my usual visits. 1t was about ten
O'Clock, and the sky was overcast with
heavy clouds. was about to leave the
grave when there arose out of the
ground, as it were, the most beautiful
woman ever saw.
81 had never seen the face of the muir
dered girl, but had heard of her great
personal charms. The figure was
dressed in robes of the purest white,
and her long golden hair hung loose.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

ELECTRICAL EXECUTION.

Some time since, in discussing the in
evitable barDarity and cruelty of
the methods of execution .now in vogue,
the GLOBE pointed out the fact that by
means of electricity the supreme pen
atty of the law could be effected with
out cruelty and without the accOmpani-
ment of the horrible features attending
modern hangingS.
About year ago commission was
appointed by the New York legislature
to inquire into more humane modes of
execution. The commission is now
ready TO report and it understood that
it will unanimously recommend the sub
stitutiOn of electricity for the rope. In
the cause of humanity it is to be hoped
that this recommendation will be put
into effect as speedily as possible. In
number of criminals to deal with than
any other state in the Union, it is highly
proper that she should be the first to in
augurate new departure.
There is little doubt but that painless
execution by means of electricity will
meet with popular approval after it has
been given a fair trial, and it is very
likely that the example of New York
will be followed by all other states in
which capital punishment is permitted.
There is nothing more certain than that
the present means of legally taking hui
man life are very near indeed to say
agery and should be done away with as
soon as possible.
The question is receiving good deal
of earnest attention in New York, and
should meet with thoughtful consider
alton here in the Northwest, where, I'M
happily, the occasions for infiieting the
extreme penalty of the law are all too
frequent.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

it would not be within the province of
the law to institute preventive as well
as remedial measures against crime.
And answering in the Affirmative,
ought not those measures to be in the
nature of providing system of indus
trial education in connection with the
common school system, since the alb
sence of any means of livelihood seems
to be the most conspicuous cause of
crime? 1t would certainly seem so.
The man who is able to earn good wages
is not likely to incline toward associa-
ton with thieves. If he were not influ-
enced by moral considerations he would
remain honest because there would be
no need for his being anything else.
The trouble is that in his ambition to
secure what he considers more ''gen-
teel' employment than that in which
his father is engaged, the average youth
scorns trade. and securing poorly paid
clerical employment, for which he is i'll
adapted, soon finds himself crowded to
the wall, and. with no trade to rely upon
and no resources, drifts into the crowd
of those who prey upon their fellow
men. But if every graduate of the conf
mon schools were also necessarily prof.
cient in some trade or art, avenues of
employment would be open to the youth
who might find it necessary to earn his
living by the work of his hands. Such
industrial education has produced the
best results wherever introduced.
1t is, therefore, very reasonable con-
clusion that its further extension would
speedily bring about decided diminu-
ton in crime, while the consequent de-
crease of the expenditure now essential
to the prevention and punishment of
crime would entirely offset the expense
of maintaining the system of manual
training
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
DON'T WANT MUCH.

I ask not from her would wed as wife
That she be as pure as the snow,
Or chaste as the stars in the heavens above,
Have cheeks with a ruddy-like glow.
Or fortune, or DOVER or family pride,
Or station beyond well-to-do;
Or carriage with horses with mettle and
speed
With room in the rig just for two.
Or form that is willowy, sylph-like and such,
Or features benign and serene;
Or lips with the color of rubies therein
A smile playing always between.
Or wavelets of tresses as dark as the night
Or forehead exceedingly fair;
Or dresses of velvet or satin or silk,
Or yet precious gems rich and rare.
From the fortunate lady my wife that's to be
But one little thing l require
And that's in the morning ell rise up in
haste
And wrestle the old kitchen fire. MID.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Short, But Good.

BrOWnsFlIIe News.
The presidents message to congress
is short, but good. OF course the Re
publican press can find nothing good in
il, while Blaine thinks he could have
written much better one. but this mat
tiers little, as it is not these who are to
Judge, but the people. They (the peo-
ple) appreciate the stand the pres
ident takes on the tariff question,
and if congress will only follow the
presidents advice and give US lower
tariffs, that we may buy the necessaries
of life cheaper than we do now, all will
be well. no matter what the allies of the
manufacturers and monOpolists have to
say.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

ity of the Sailors Encampment. making
his home with family on st. JOSeph'S
Island, He spends his time in hunting
| and fishing, trying to regain his lost
health and strength. About ten days
ago he was hunting on the Middle
Neebish, near the old Cadotte home
| stead, wherein is the old, dilapidated,
lOng-since-deserted log house in which
old Jean Baptiste Cadotte died several
| years ago. 1t has been unOccupied for
years, and is nearly mile distant from
| any other house on the island and prac-
tically uninhabited. While StrOlling
near the hut he was almost paralyZed
with fear by hearing groanS issuing
from the chamber or garnet of the build
ing. His first inclination to fly being
overcome, and supposing that some suf-
fering fisherman or hunter had taken
refuge there, he entered the house and
asked who was there and what was
wanted.
For Gods sake, get me drink, I'm
dying for drink replied the voice of
person in the greatest apparent agony.
"'What will 1 get it imp inquired
BaumgrasS, after an Intellectual search
for drinking utensil.
"'There is pail just outside the
door in the entry: get it in that came
from above; and, in Heavens name,
hurry. Pm choking
1.-THE young Nimrod quickly procured
the water from the river near by, re-
turned to the hovel, went upstairs and
looked for the dying man. He could
see no one.
"'Where are you?' he asked.
Right here in the next rCOm,' was
the word.
Entering the adjoining apartment he
Saw-nOthing whatever. The rays of
the setting sun dimly lighted up the
room, plainly showing that it was I'M
tenanted, and had not been occupied
for months. Dropping the pail on the
floor he fed, made his way to his board
ing. place, told the story, and expressed
an Intention to take the first boat to his
home. His friends laughed at him, and
finally the next day they accompanied
him to the old house, but nothing was
heard or seen that threw the faintest
light OH the mystery.
Several days afterward, his courage
having revived, he repeated his visit at
midday, this time alone. The incidents
of the previous sensation were repeated.
The cries and groans were heard, cou-
pied with demand for water, and
search revealed nothing and no one as
before. 1t is still mystery. Does the
ghost of old Cadotte cry out for water to
quench never-ending thirst?''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Not a Statesman.

Washington Critic.
When Senator Hearst came up to the
desk yesterday to be sworn in he had
his hands in his pockets.
He'll never be thoroughbred states
man." remarked Col. Mussey in the
press gallery.
'sWhy note" asked a Californian, with
some Indignation at the apparent retiec-
ton.
because he's got his hands in his own
pockets instead of other peoples" re-
marked the colonel, and went on max
inc notes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Period of Alleged Decline.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
Politicians on the lookout for facts
and figures to prove the ruinous effect
of Democratic administration are re-
spectfully referred to the last issue of
New Enterprises. The manufacturing
establishments, mills, factories, gas,
electric light and mining companies,
railroads, waterworks. and so forth COM
prised in the list for the past week num-
Der 341, representing in cash the enor-
nous sum of $4,000, $50. This is pro-
gress at the rate of thirty-five hundred
million year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
A Bigger Block.

TO the Editor OF the Globe.
l saw in yesterdays GLOBE an ex-
tract from the New York World of a
block of coal exhibited at Dallas, Tex,
weighing 6,357 pounds, as the largest
taken out of any mine in the United
States. was in Mauch Chunk, Carbon
county, Philadelphia, i'll 1864 and saw
solid block of coal weighing S,176
pounds taken out of the mines at that
place. JOHN S. GREEN.
Altoona, Wis, Dec. II.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
] Wot
The slot
Is rot.
Great Scottl

IT'S weakness of people,
They want something new,
If it wasn't for this,
Oh, say, what would do?
Well, st. Paul can't complain,
For dandy she's got,
In the latest great nuisance,
The cable-car slot.
This innocent crevice,
Between iron bands.
Contracts when it's cold,
When it hot it expands.
II LAYS for its victim
And nails him, Great Scottl
This iron-jawed monster,
The cable-car slot.
You see yon proud charger
Go pranciug along
Down Wabasha street,
Through the thick of the throng.
He passes Fifth street,
And to Fourth street he's got
Shoot the horse, He been gripped
By the cable-car slot.
You are walking along
With your girl to the show,
And breathing sweet nonsense
AS onward you go.
When all of a sudden
You find your "hoof'' caught
In the death-dealing grip
OF the cable-car slot.
"Clean your sidewalks" they say,
For the danger is great:
Some poor fellow might fall
Who is coming home late.
But leave us, prithee,
Oh take from us not
The pride of our city,
The cablec car slot.
You can talk bout your sites
For the new county Jail,
The high-license law
You can welcome and hail;
But they're all insignificant,
Drivel and rot
Compared with the only,
The cable-car slot. M. j. ID.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Sure to Drop.

HerON Like NEWS.
Burt Day is up in the highest crotch
of the tallest tree in Mcleod county
yelling "McGin for 1885," When Burt
hears the result of the next state con-
vention, he will drop out of that tree
with dull, sickening thud.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
A Logical Document.

Herman Enterprise.
The presidents message is short and
devoted entirely to the subject which
has been for several years neglected by
both parties. Iii is logical document,
and urges reduction of the protective
tariff OIL neceSSarieS of life. Mr.. C.eve-
land has shown more bravery than the
people might have expected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Found i'm Both Parties

PIttsDurg Dlspatch.
Senator German is reported to have
been much disguised because fresh
reporter who was trying to interview
him asked whether he was Republican
or Democrat. But there is some excuse
for the reporter, after all. The senator
is principally famous as spokesman,
and the politicians who pin their faith
to the bread and butter are not confined
to any especial party.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Lovers of the WOrkingmen.

Chicago Herald.
MIR. Window, of Minnesota Cor is it
New York?), was present at that happy
gathering in Chickering hall Thursday;
but, at that very day and hour, Mr.Win-
dom was one of another distinguished
gathering of Republicans grouped in
spirit OIL the GOgebic range buying S.
600, 900 worth of mining property in the
interest of the American wOrkingmen,
whom they love so well. Steve Dorsey
and Jesse r. Grant were of the Gogeblc
range Sanhedrlm. too.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Won't Need War Paint.

Wells Advocate.
Will st. Paul allow the 'bouncers" to
seize strangers and toss them "play-
fully up IN blanket during the car
nival next year as it did last winter?
We ask for information, for if the prac-
tice is in vogue when we visit the ice
king in his ''lair' we wish to go in war
paint.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

THAT young Toledo millionaire who, hav-
ing inherited 100000, purposes orga niz-
ing minstrel show, could have found a
more effectual method of disposing of his
fortune. He might have started a daily pa
per in New York.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Senator FarwelPs Scheme.

New York Sun.
Senator Farwell's scheme for the issue
of national bank circulation based upon
railroad and municipal bonds is the most
impudent one yet suggested for the ben
eft of the banks. 1t is virtually prop
ositiOn that the people shall lend to
these institutions, free of interest, mill
ions of dollars to be invested in interest
bearing securities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
The Fruit of Experience.

Mrs. Honeydove-Dear me, L can't
see what can keep Charley out SO late !!
Here it is IL O'Clock. He's regular
slave to his business.
Mrs: Twicemarried Observation-Disclosures
dear; but the second knows its always
best to get home by dinner time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
One Good Effect.

OSHKOSH TIMES.
The presidents message has had one
good effect. Blaine has come out from
his hypOcritical pretense that he was
not looking for nomination for presi-
dent next year. He is now recognized
as candidate and the one who is al
most certain to be nominated. That
will suit the Democratic programme ex-
actlY
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
He Didn't Tell Her.

New DIRK Sun
''1f l should tell you, DEAR" he said,
''that my love for you had grown cold ;
that L had ceased to care for you, and
that the happy time when | shall claim
you as my OwneSt own will never, never
be, would it really be trial to you,
darling?'
Yes, George" shyly admitted the
girl; sit would be breach of promise
trial ,,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
None of 1t Got AWAY.

RenODOth SUNDAY Herald.
Papers of incorporation have been
filed by Washington benevolent So
ciety which will be known as "The
Right Worthy Supreme Grand Council.
No. 1, of the G. A. o. of B. and S. of
MOSeS.o
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
An Infantiie Exploit.

JUUBt.
There is story Of "a lost baby that
returned home bearded man of thirty
FIVE" We don't believe in such mira
cles; and what must have been its con-
fiding mothers establishment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
A Bald-Headed Bid.

CaIedOnla Argus.
Blaine'S "manifesto'' is the baldeSt
headed bid for the presidency that has
yet been made. 1t discounts Sherman's
Nashville love-and-harmony and his
Springfield bloody-shirt speeches.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
is pity our law makers did not have
the faculty of drafting the laws in
United States language.

BISHOP WHIPPLE rightly says that so long
as he has an almshouse to go to, the Indian
will be pauper. If the good Senator DAWES
hears this he will be likely to call the bishop
a hereto, and yet the good senator ought to
make the acquaintance of an average Indian.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Must Cut Fish Or Bait.

Litchfeld News Ledger.
Gov. McGill has got to either cut bait
or fish in the Red Wing Reform school
matter. People are watching closely to
see which horn Of the dilemma he will
grasp.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Hard at Work.
Life.

Editor Ito assistant)-Here is a clip
ping to the effect that a Yankee has
taught ducks to swim in hot water with
such success that they lay boiled eggs.
Do you know what paper it's from?
Assistant-Must be the Christian at
Work.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
She Eucbred Her Successor.

Louisville Courier Journal.
The good woman of Tennessee who
had her new bonnet buried with her
doubtless had misglvings as to the style
of the crown laid up for her above.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

AprOpos of the recent exhibition
which that mercenary English clergy
man, DR.. PARKER, made of himself in
this country, st. Paul divine was tell
ing the Whisparer the other day. of a
little experience he had with the rev.
erend gentleman. 1t was in London.
The st. Paul clergyman had gone to
hear PARKER preach, and fairly i'm
preSsive sermon it was that he delivered
to the vast thr0ng present. Just as he
concluded. however, ana the people
were about moving out, with the re-
ligiOuS feeling yet strong within them.
DR.. PARKER stopped them and said that
on going out they would be met by
agents selling the Blank Review con-
tanning copy of recent sermon of his,
and which could be purchased at very
reasonable price at wholesale or retail.
A man who is capable of making his
pulpit means of advertising his lite
rary wares is hardly the kind of man
we admire in this country.
DR.. PARKER will now doubtless agree
with this view
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

THE Twin Cities appreciate merit, and will
accordingly give the National Opera COM
pany a reception that will be fitting rebuke
to one-horse towns like Cincinnati and Kan
sas City, which reserve their applause and
dollars for Indifferent minstrel shows.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
STRAY SUNBEAMS.

The new 2-cent postage stamp is not
giving satisfaction, because it won't
stick. The manufacturer doesn't under
stand the art of cumming. The gum
rubS off easily, and if the stamp is car
ried in the pocket it will soon be no
good.
1t seems to be a senselesS custom in
the postoffice department anyway to be
changing the style of postage stamps
every year or two. What difference
does it make whether a stamp is blue or
red or green? People get accustomed to
the color and like it.
-
The London Telegraph has become
convert to Mr.. DONNELLY's Baconian
theory. Its columns are filled every
day with denunciatiOns of the late
lamented WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and
eulogies on Minnesota's distinguished
scholar. The Telegraph will probably
not be able to convert the whole English
nation to the cryptogram faith, but it
will help Mr.. DoNNELLY to sell books
on the other side of the water.
-
at looks as if the business men of the
Twin cities know where to advertise"
remarked the Old Citizen, as he dropped
into the GLOBE Office on his regular
Sunday night round last evening. 81
see this mornings SUNDAY GLOBE had
10 columns of straight advertising. The
New York papers don't beat that. Our
business men are hustlerS, and when
they advertise they seek newspaper
that is hustler too
~
SANTA CLAUS is going to start the
cable line Chris tmas morning. Hang
up your stockings.
-
President FOSTER. of the Republican
club organization, doesn't seem TO be
of an over-sanguine temperament. In
his speech accepting the presidency of
the club, he said it would take some
time to make New York Republican, but
he expected to cut down the Democratic
! majorities. This is the first instance on
record that political boss started into
a canvass without claiming the whole
earth, and several of the smaller planets
thrown in. Republicans must be pretty
blue when their leaders start in with
| such modest claims.
-
People who have been taught that
| NERO fiddled while Rome was burning
will find out their mistake tonight. Old
Resin the Bow hadn't been born in
NERo's time, and the cruel Roman EN-
peror had to crafty his musical taste by
picking on the harp. The violin is sup
posed to have been invented about the
twelfth century, and for three or four
hundred years it was only used by the
low order of MINISTRIES and jugglerS.
| Fiddling was not regarded as respecta-
BILE until the seventeenth century, when
GIOVANNI succeeded in introducing
the violin as a favorite instrument in
! polite circles.
-
Now that the time has come around
for high license to go into effect i'll this
city, the law Interpreters are finding any
number of nuts to crack in endeayOring
to discover the meaning of the ambigu-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

The GLOBE Press Room is Open Every
Nicht to oil Advertisers who desire to
Convince Themselves that the GLOBE has
tie largest Circulation of any News
pnper Northwest of Chicago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

ST. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DAILY CSoT INCLUDING SUNDAY.l
VI in advance. SO 90 3m- in advanceS2 W
IN. in advance. co q weeks in adv. 90
One month zoe.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
Throw the Paste Pot at Him.

Lowell COuTI6r.
What shall be done with the man who
passes back and forth under the edi-
torial window, and ringing monotonous
bell repeats with parrot-like pertinac-
ity: Scissors to grind?"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

THE driving of the last spike on the Cali
fornia & Oregon railway means that st. Paul
will hereafter get her due proportion of Wis
itors to and from the land of perpetual sum
Shiue.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
A Good Suggestion.

Fergus FAILS Farmer.
Chicago has been decided upon as the
place for holding the national Repub-
ican convention next June. Minneap-
oils was good second What's the
matter with st. Paul for the Democratic
convention?